Holy branches
About two weeks ago, Brigid overheard Randy and I planning for Holy Week and Easter, and she wanted to know when we would be getting out the book she used to follow the whole week. I was surprised she remembered it and maintained some strong association between it and Holy Week.
Just before the weekend I unpacked our Holy Week box, including my Chinese-language Stations of the Cross, our Easter baskets, and one Easter story board book.
She's ready for 圣周 Shèng zhōu (Holy Week).
More after the jump
We are now entering our eighth Holy Week in China. It hardly seems possible, but it is.
To review, Palm Sunday in Chinese is called 圣枝主日 Shèng zhī zhǔ rì, Holy Branch Sunday. Like all of the previous seven, our Mass began outside, for the blessing of our branches (a few real palms but mostly local evergreens), the Gospel reading of the procession of Jesus into Jerusalem, and our procession.
Rather than try to find a different way to say what I already have:
And on that note....we head towards the rest of Holy Week.
Just before the weekend I unpacked our Holy Week box, including my Chinese-language Stations of the Cross, our Easter baskets, and one Easter story board book.
She's ready for 圣周 Shèng zhōu (Holy Week).
More after the jump
We are now entering our eighth Holy Week in China. It hardly seems possible, but it is.
To review, Palm Sunday in Chinese is called 圣枝主日 Shèng zhī zhǔ rì, Holy Branch Sunday. Like all of the previous seven, our Mass began outside, for the blessing of our branches (a few real palms but mostly local evergreens), the Gospel reading of the procession of Jesus into Jerusalem, and our procession.
Rather than try to find a different way to say what I already have:
A little while later we heard Psalm 22. It's one of the few I've memorized in Chinese translation. In any language, it expresses our most desperate fear.It sounded like this as we have heard it every time in Beijing, except for last year when we were at an English-language Mass.
我的天主, 我的天主. 你为何舍弃我
Wǒ de tiānzhǔ, wǒ de tiānzhǔ. Nǐ wèihé shěqì wǒ?
And on that note....we head towards the rest of Holy Week.
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